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Office 2007 Deployment - 1/29/2008 10:02:28 PM

sconnell

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can anyone provide me some information and on the best way to deploy MS Office 2007 suite to about 500 users. If this isn't the right forum could someone please let me know.

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RE: Office 2007 Deployment - 1/30/2008 12:59:48 PM

scarneiro

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You need to create a custom.msp file.
Run setup.exe /admin, you will be able to create a custom.msp file.
Put that file in your updates folder. You should also edit the config.xml file.
Microsoft does have documentation on deploying office 2007.
Here's a whitepaper on it.

Direct download link:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/2/d/e2daa5d4-b813-4cb9-89aa-1c3a8099f347/deploying_office_2007_with_sms_2003_r2_white_paper.doc

Smita

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RE: Office 2007 Deployment - 1/30/2008 5:30:51 PM

rbennett806

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Deploy it, or customize and package it? For additional customizations you can look here too: http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=860.

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RE: Office 2007 Deployment - 1/31/2008 3:47:18 PM

sconnell

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rbennett806, I'm just looking to create a 2007 standard office suite package then to deploy it throughout my collection of PC's roughly 500 of them. Thanks for the additonal link.

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RE: Office 2007 Deployment - 5/8/2008 10:14:38 PM

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create your custom installation and add your msp file to the update folder in the program file share. from there you can call the msi or setup file to deply via sms or psexec or some other deployment tool

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RE: Office 2007 Deployment - 5/8/2008 10:45:12 PM

sconnell

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jmlewis, Im kind of new to all this so I'm not really sure about how to create the msp file. Any helpful links that may descibe it in detail a little more? Thanks

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RE: Office 2007 Deployment - 5/9/2008 8:37:53 AM

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check out this article. it can probably explain better than i can anyways.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx

what you do is essentially run this office customization tool and it creates a .msp file. from there you place this .msp file in the folder called updates in the program file share that you will be running the install from. then, everytime you run the setup.exe, it will install with your preconfigured options.

for deployment, you can run this .exe from the command line or run it from sms.

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